(2024_1_Artikeltext)The topic of war in Catholic religious education in the Republic of Croatia

Abstract

Three decades ago, the war for independence from the then Socialist Federal Republic of Yugoslavia took place on the territory of the Republic of Croatia. Only after the independence was won, the subject of confessional religious education got its place in the educational system of the Republic of Croatia. Today, wars are fought on other European and world fronts, among which the Russian-Ukrainian and Israeli-Palestinian armed conflicts capture the most media attention. All of them cause population migrations, which consequently affect religious education due to changes in culture, demography and interpersonal relations. The topic that this paper deals with is the extent to which the topic of war is present in the subject of Catholic religious education in the Republic of Croatia, especially in relation to the experience of the recent war of the Croatian people, and how and in what way this topic can be dealt with didactically and methodically in the teaching process, having in view of the actuality of war conflicts in the world and the curiosity of educational subjects.